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• There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.

  Greg McKeown

  Mistake, Admitting, Shame

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.

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• There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives, elevating our ideals, deepening our tolerance, and sharpening our appetite for knowledge about the rest of the world. Educational and cultural exchanges...provide a perfect opportunity for this precious spark to grow, making us more sensitive and wiser international citizens through our careers.

  Ronald Reagan

  Educational, Opportunity, Careers

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• A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.

  Emmet Fox

  Morning, Mistake, Men

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• As time passes on
  I turn the next page
  To discover a new me
  while I continue to age.
  I may no longer be
  Who I was long ago
  But I still can matter -
  That much I know.
  With a new set of tools
  I have gathered from time -
  I keep looking forward
  To more mountains to climb.
  My best is not over
  As the skeptics might say -
  I just learn how to conquer
  In a much wiser way.
  So don't sell me short -
  I am not nearly done -
  I CAN STILL MATTER -
  I've only just begun.

  Tom Krause

  Retirement, Long Ago, Age

  Tom Krause, “I Can Still Matter”

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• It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Writing, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.267, Modern Library

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• Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in Revelation. The fact of the great apostasy is attested by both sacred and secular writ, and history bears witness that it became universal. We proclaim this fact of history not as an attack on any church. We do not assume any position of "holier than thou" or "wiser than thou," but we announce this historic fact of the apostasy as a vindication of the claim that there has been in fact a restoration of the gospel.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Historical, Church, Restoration

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• The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "'Nahj al-Balagha' ('The Peak of Eloquence')". Book by Ali, translated by Askari Jafri,

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• The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Artist, Publicity, May

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 2014.

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• To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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• Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world-at any age. At least try.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Writing, Dancing

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• In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Adversity, Stronger, Way

  "Come What May, and Love It". www.lds.org. October 2008.

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• We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even in the face of constant disappointment, continue to believe that the intensity of their desire will be rewarded by an eventual jackpot of affection. And if that’s the slot machine you’re playing, friend, you’d better leave the casino ‘cause that one don’t pay out

  Paul Dini

  Hurt, Disappointment, Believe

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• My paintings are wiser than I am.

  Gerhard Richter

  Painting

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• What we are living with is the result of human choices and it can be changed by making better, wiser choices.

  Robert Redford

  Choices, Recycling, Results

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• Balance is the key to my serenity. I attain balance by listening to my inner wisdom and to the wisdom of others. There is no situation in which I cannot find a point of balance. There is no circumstance in which I cannot find inner harmony. As I ask to be led into equilibrium and clarity, I will find that my answers come to me. I am wiser than I know, more capable of right action and attitudes than I yet believe. In every event, I seek the balance point of God's action through me.

  Julia Cameron

  Attitude, Believe, Keys

  Julia Cameron (1997). “Heart Steps”, p.29, Penguin

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• The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?

  Thomas Sowell

  Common Sense, Unlikely, Made

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• Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

  John Maynard Keynes

  President, Odysseus

  'The Economic Consequences of the Peace' (1919) ch. 3 (on Woodrow Wilson)

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• Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

  John Flavel

  May, Be Confident, Providence

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.54, Lulu Press, Inc

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• They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Meaningful, Humble, Voice

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• No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

  John Selden

  Wisdom, Men, May

  John SELDEN, Richard Milward (1786). “Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq.; or his sence of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State. Edited by R. Milward”, p.77

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• To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth to be effective and for it to make people wiser, it has to be filtered through the soul of a highest quality, the soul of an artist.

  Alexander Ostrovsky

  Clever, Artist, People

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• I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.

  Rachel Weisz

  Thinking, Comforting, Easier

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• To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny, Golf, Play

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• Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

  Max Ernst

  Beauty, Teaching, Philosopher

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• Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide.

  Elgin Groseclose

  Government, People, Office

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